i was looking at the awe website at that unbelievable duo necklace taylor wore in her autumn tiktok and i realized today that there are different versions of the design.
well, i've seen some people talking about this song and i had to listen to it again, since it's one of my favorite songs on lover and it also has to do with the theories and the meaning this song has to me.
i don't want to apply this to anyone so feel free to SKIP and NOT READ if you don't agree that this is a LGBTQIA+ song.
pure my own interpretation but you don't have to come to me if you don't like, she has a lot of songs and some of them are free for interpretations and they have different meanings to different people.
the first line it's:
“combat, i'm ready for combat / i say i don't want that but what if i do?”
this line to me has the deepest meaning and it comes along with the one in you are in love “and you will understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars” and in ivy “this is the goddamn fight of my life and you started it” and both songs are before and after the archer which makes the archer in the middle.
the combat she's (maybe) referring to it's about coming out being (still) the american dream and the woman everyone looks up to when it comes to pop music, she says she don't want it but what if she does? what if she want to fight for it, fight for who she is and who she wants people to see that she really is? it's a combat because you can't come out if you're not ready to start a war against the world.
“cause cruelty wins in the movies / i've got a hundred thrown-out speeches i almost said to you”
cruelty here, to me, it's about how cruel it is to not have the story of your life in the big screen, like, we grow up seeing the bad stories about LGBTQIA+ couples and it's always about how they didn't end up together or how bad they are treated. the “speeches i almost said to you" looks like something she was ready to say to us, her fans, and she didn't had the chance or she wasn't really ready.
“easy they come, easy they go / i jump from the train, i ride off alone / i never grow up it's getting so old, help me hold on to you”
when i first saw the miss americana documentary, i highlighted that part where she is trying to convince her father and the rest of the team that it was a good idea/good move to speak up about the politics and the situation of the trump thing. and it was very hard for me to watch because it was clearly a bunch of old men that grew up and still have in mind their conservatory concepts that goes against what taylor wanted to tell her whole life, they were just trying to silence her and she decided to do it anyway because she is a grown woman and she never spoke up about those things before the reputation era.
the easy they come and easy they go line goes for the fans, they are always in and out and sometimes some of them never want to come back and stay because in the first bad thing that happens to her it pulls them away. she jumps from the train and ride off alone, the train maybe is about her life that never stops and she takes a break from it, the media, the relationships, the image she has in front of the whole world and she ride alone because there's no one in the world that could understand her more than herself. she never grow up when it comes to being more mature when it comes to some things and having the capacity to speak her truth, she's asking us to let her hold on to us when things go harder and when everyone else has left her.
“i've been the archer, i've been the prey / who could ever leave me darling, but who could stay?”
i fucking love this line so much because when you are a LGBTQIA+ kid growing up, you always has to fight against being the bad person and the good person, you grow up seeing in the news that you will die young and that there's people out there that will try to tell you that loving someone of the same sex is the wrong thing to do. being the archer and also the prey is like haunting yourself until you realize who you really are, you have that idea internalized in you, the homophobic jokes you grew up listening and you're also the target and it's like both sides of a coin. who could ever leave her for being a (bi, pan, lesbian) woman? who could ever stay if she's a (bi pan, lesbian) woman? it's like “who could stay in the darkest of the darkest times here with me because it looks like i am lost and i don't know where to go”
“dark side, i search for your dark side / but what if i'm alright, right, right, right here?”
the dark side is not the bad side like people point out, the dark side of someone is like when the moon is half shown and half hidden, and you can only see the part that's out for the light. here the dark side of taylor is the one she haven't showed to us, and to me this line is not about a potential lover but about herself. and this song feels like a mirror, so to me, she's talking to herself and trying to find her dark side in front of her own image. the sequence “alright, right” it's like the dark side saying “i am here and it's good”.
“and i cut off my nose just to spite my face / then i hate my reflection for years and years”
this fucking line is the deepest for me, because it's like, she cut a part of herself to looks like someone who she wasn't made to be, it reminds me of having to hide your true side in despite of being hurt or left aside. how many LGBTQIA+ kids and teenagers has to hide from their parents? we change our way to see the world, we lie to everyone about our love interestings, we hide in the closet and we don't face ourselves because this is not who we are and then we spent the rest of our life hating our reflection because we don't recognize this person but everybody loves this version we created, it's easy, it's very easy to love a straight person but it's the hardest thing to let a queer kid feel loved. it's very easy to not tell a straight person how to be but it's the hardest thing teach a queer kid how to love themselves.
“i wake in the night, i pace like a ghost / the room is on fire, invisible smoke / and all of my heroes die all alone / help me hold on to you”
she's s ghost to the people who live with her so she's not seen, everything is burning and there's an invisible smoke that's where she fades in, and all of her heroes, probably the queer ones that are dying everyday all alone and the ones who died were left alone in their final days. again she's asking if she can count on us to keep going if things go hard.
“i see right through me / they see right through me / can you see right through me?”
seeing through someone means that you see their true version, like if you're looking at their soul and they're so open that you can read anything. it's understanding someone and knowing someone inside and out. just like the lover mv where she's inside the fish tank, it's a metaphor for a thing that can be seen by everyone just like a mirror. and the delicate mv where she's not seen until she enters the bar and sees a person. she can see through herself and people are seeing through her but not in the way she wants to be seen and then she asks (for the fans?) if we can see right through her. could we fight the wars with her? be the shoulder for her to lean on? stay even when she's about to face the fight the biggest war of her life?
“all the king's horses, all the king's men / couldn't put me together again / cause all of my enemies started out friends”
king's horses and king's men also align with the chorus and the universe of being the prey in a world of men. also it can also be the world of a society that lives inside a bubble and cannot accept diversity. not even the men, (her father, team, men she dated?) could put her together again after all that she have been through, and it matches with the “i cut off my nose just to spite my face”. all of her enemies once were friends which implies that she can't trust anyone and as the song goes as (in my vision) a LGBTQIA+ letter to her fans, she's saying that there's no one that could handle this secret and she already tried to tell them but it ended wrong.
that's it. to me this song has a deep meaning and i couldn't put everything i wanted to in this post. also i just want taylor to know that there's a lot of sapphic connotations in her songs and i will always stay.
nonono she said “I LOVE YOU KARLIE” on her bday then she said “can’t wait for a lifetime of adventures together” and now we have “I’m never gonna love again” and “ forever is the sweetest con” im just going through it today, sorry maddy
happy first anniversary of exile being released as a single for karlie's birthday. i could go into the whole "you're the west village" -> "you were my town" .. "we rule the kingdom inside my room" -> "you were my crown" ... "stay here honey i don't wanna share" -> "i can see you staring honey, with his arms around your body" .. "cruelty wins in the movies" -> "i think i've seen this film before and i didn't like the ending" ... "salute to me like the american dream/i'm your american queen" -> "you're not my homeland anymore" .. "fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves" -> " i can see you staring like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me/those eyes add insult to injury" ... "we were crazy to think that this could work" -> "we always walked a very thin line" .. "remember how i said i'd die for you/i'd marry you with paper rings/you know for me it's always you/i stay when it's hard or it's wrong or we're making mistakes/at every table i'll save you a seat/baby all at once this is enough" -> "i gave so many signs/you didn't even see the signs" thing but it might b too much for a tuesday morning 😑🚬
Evelyn Hugo and Celia St James
She did it.....you kept me like a secret but i kept you like an oath
so the main character got emotionally destroyed by a boy and then later grew up to be someone who looks suspiciously like celia st james, a lesbian who married a man
Love Lock Bridge in Paris,
the City of Lover
1.Betty: Writing a song about yearning for a woman is such a hetrosexual thing to do.
2. Marron: Yes because most straight men have scarlet lips.
3.Wonderland: It’s a complete coincidence that Diana had her wonderland tattoo removed right after this song was released.
4.The Man: Because most straight women wish they could brag about getting bitches and models.
5.Don’t Blame Me: I don’t know what you're talking about being in a straight relationship is totally falling from grace.
6.Hits Different: Because wanting to melt another girl's world is extremely straight.
7.Dress: Wanting to date your best friend is such hetrosexual behavior right? Right?
8.Gorgeous: Because it makes total sense why it would be worse for a man to not have a girlfriend than to be single.
9.Now That We Don’t Talk: Because it’s completely logical for “Truth is I can’t pretend it’s platonic it’s just ended” to be written by a straight woman about a straight man.
10.Daylight: “I used to think love would be black and white but it’s golden.” is such a straight lyric to write.
11.I Know Places: Because every straight person has to worry about people finding out about their relationship with their partner.
12.End Game: Because her being in a relationship with a man no ones ever heard of would be a big conversation.
13.Illicit Affairs: Again having to hide a relationship is such hetrosexual behavior.
14.Question: Because a hetrosexual relationship is totally going against gender norms and is not at all considered suitable and right
15.Ours: Because most hetrosexual couples have to deal with people disapproving of their relationship.
16.How You Get The Girl: Because most straight women are extremely familiar with how to get the girl.
17.Out Of The Woods: “The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color” is such a straight lyric you guys.
18.All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Because “all of the girls you’ve loved before made you the one I’ve fallen for” makes total grammatical sense for it to be about a man.
19.Glitch: Because it’s so common for a straight relationship to start off as them supposed to be just friends.
20.The Very First Night: Because there is no reason as to why “they don’t know how much I miss you” breaks the whole flow of the song.
all info compiled from:
http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/MAINPAGE.html
The earliest blind item I can find that regarding Gaylor.
Self-explanatory.
Karlie uses Taylor’s credit card to make a purchase.
Karlie was crushed over something.
Taylor had seats for the Michael Kors show that Karlie walked in – she did not show.
A little tidbit from Cara Delevingne.
Karlie and Lorde rumored to be hooking up – mentions of Karlie’s last relationship.
Ruby Rose and Taylor celebrated NYE together at the Calvin Harris concert.
Massive PR planned to oust the rumors of Gaylor.
Karlie involved with someone else.
Another shot for Kaylor? Karlie turns down Miley in hopes.
Taylor finds out Karlie and Kendall have hooked up – and then comes this Instagram post.
Taylor briefly hooks up with Cara.
Why Karlie never spoke.
Taylor wanted to come out but was discouraged by her team.
Here Comes Toe!
Suspicious activity by Joe.
Joe does not attend Abagail’s wedding.
Taylor releases Gorgeous – and PR pushes the Toe narrative.
Joe has plans of his own.
Kaylor reunites. Karlie is overjoyed and knows Gorgeous is about her.
Some PR stunting to push the Toe narrative.
Joe living his best life.
Toe is a safe stunt. This could last.
Indeed, the August 3rddates were not originally in the plan. Taylor announced tour in November 2017.
Threats of revealing Toe is fake.
As we remember, Taylor was eerily silent when Karlie got engaged.
Karlie was never in it.
Karlie and Josh’s relationship is staged.
Taylor allegedly wants distance from Karlie at this point – can’t blame her.
Karlie and Taylor reunite and it is all smiles. That’s when we got this photo.
Some Toe tea.
Taylor sings Speak Now the night after her St. Louis show, where Karlie grew up.
Orchestrating Toe.
Karlie unfollows Joe.
Taylor is heartbroken.
Emma Stone is asked about Joe Alwyn.
Joe can’t answer a damn question about their relationship.
Karlie spends Valentine’s Day with Taylor instead of her new hubby.
PR orchestrates a Toe PDA plot.
Taylor reveals the giant butterfly mural and…
Friendship is officially back on.
The appearance Taylor made at Stonewall? Was supposed to be with Karlie.
Taylor was prepared to come out but didn’t want to do it alone.
Taylor is informed that if she does come out, she cannot be open about her past relationship. This puts Taylor in a position for criticism.
Some thoughts from twitter 🙌🏻
"You're the West Village
You still do it for me, babe"
(false god - taylor swift)
"Got the wine for you"
(false god - taylor swift)
Let's wine about it...
Wine also created this masterpiece:
"You buzzcut and my hair bleached"
(dress - taylor swift)
all too well: “so casually cruel in the name of being honest”
mr. perfectly fine: “mr. casually cruel”
last kiss: “you told me you loved so why did you go away?”
mr. perfectly fine: “mr. looked me in the eye and told me you’d never go away”
how you get the girl: “when you left her all alone and never told her why”
mr. perfectly fine: “mr. never told me why”
I knew you were trouble: “no apologies, he’ll never see you cry”
mr. perfectly fine: “mr. never had to see me cry”
dear John: “long were the nights when my days once revolved around you”
mr. perfectly fine: “mr. everything revolves around you”
the story of us: “I used to know my spot next to you, now I’m searching the room for an empty seat”
mr. perfectly fine: “sashay your way to your seat. it’s the best seat in the best room”
white horse: “it’s too late for you and your white horse to catch me now”
mr. perfectly fine: “someday maybe you’ll miss me but by then you’ll be mr. too late”